Mine detail: Hanging Glacier

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 59.38974, -136.42213

Resource(B)

Primary: Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Ore: Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Glacier Creek Volcanic Sequence;Glacier Creek Volcanic Sequence
Host type:Greenschist
Associated type:Diorite

References

MRDSA013091
DEP10002193
Reference{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Robertson, E.C., and Winkler, G.R., 1974, Geology of the Skagway B-3 and B-4 quadrangles, southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 832, 33 p.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., 1984, Regional geologic summary, metallogenesis, and mineral resources of southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 84-572, 298 p., 1 plate, scale approx. 1:600,000.}{Deposit:: Still, J.C., 1984, Stratiform massive sulfide deposits in the Mt. Henry Clay area, southeast Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 118-84, 65 p.}{Deposit:: Gilbert, W.G., and Redman, E.C., 1989, Lode deposits, prospects, and occurrences of the Porcupine mining area, southeast Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 17-89, 1 sheet, scale 1:39,600.}{Deposit:: Still, J.C., Hoekzema, R.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Gilbert, W.G., Wier, K.R., Burns, L.E., and Fechner, S.A., 1991, Economic geology of Haines-Klukwan-Porcupine area, southeastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 91-4, 156 p., 5 sheets, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Rubicon Minerals, 1998, Palmer VMS Project, southeast Alaska, Executive Summary: unpublished report by Rubicon Minerals Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia, 25 p.}
ReporterT.C. Crafford